http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/05/selling-sms-cyoa-comics-and-happen-hypertext/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/05/selling-sms-cyoa-comics-and-happen-hypertext/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 Scott Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:08:32 +0000 /?p=405#comment-1755 I originally posted this on the front page, but deleted it when Noah brought to my attention that we'd already noted it (whoops): Today's <i>New York Times</i> has a <a href="http://nytimes.com/2004/09/11/international/asia/11shanghai.html">story</a> about <i>Out of the Fortress,</i> a novel written by Qian Fuzhang for distribution on mobile phones as 60 text messages sent twice a day over the course of a month. Each of the 60 chapters is 70 Chinese characters long. The novelist, well known for writing long print novels, was paid about $20,000 for the novel. Subscribers purchase the experience for slightly less than a print book would cost. Here's another <a href="http://www.cctv.com/english/20040910/100549.shtml">description</a> of the work in case the <i>Times</i> link goes dead. I originally posted this on the front page, but deleted it when Noah brought to my attention that we’d already noted it (whoops): Today’s New York Times has a story about Out of the Fortress, a novel written by Qian Fuzhang for distribution on mobile phones as 60 text messages sent twice a day over the course of a month. Each of the 60 chapters is 70 Chinese characters long. The novelist, well known for writing long print novels, was paid about $20,000 for the novel. Subscribers purchase the experience for slightly less than a print book would cost. Here’s another description of the work in case the Times link goes dead.

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